Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Week one of the transfer was great! If each week of the rest
of the transfer goes as quick as this one, i am in trouble. Time is going too
fast. Elder Nilsson and I are having a blast! I feel comfortable teaching with
him and things are moving very smoothly. I am super grateful he is my
companion. We had a super crazy week with transfers and MLC and meetings, but
it was so great! We have been able to find some new people and things are
moving forward in our area.

Each transfer, our mission has a theme that we focus on for
the transfer, and right now our theme is, "teach people, not
lessons." I love this theme because this gospel gives everyone a personal
relationship with their Savior and Father, and everyone has their own needs
that can be taken care of, we just need to follow this Spirit to help us know
what they need.

Eric was supposed to be baptized this week, but for a couple
reasons we weren't able to baptize him. Hopefully he will be ready in a couple
weeks. Gyan is still doing great! We are hoping to baptize him this
weekend.

This week we went to see one of our members who likes us to
come and read the Book of Mormon with her, but she wasn't feeling well, so we
thought we would stop by the President and see if he was home. The guards of
his house are super nice, we just walked right up to the security check at his
house and talked to the bodyguards and police and asked them if we could give
the president a Book of Mormon to read. So we gave it to the bodyguard to give
to him. We are going to follow up this week ;)

Sunday, our stake president held a meeting with all the
missionaries in our stake and we talked about how the missionary work is going
and how our relationships are with our wards. It was a great meeting, and we
were able to discuss a lot with him. He also scheduled to proselyte with all the
missionaries in our zone in the coming months. It is awesome to see everyone's
love of the gospel and willingness to share it.

Everything is going great! I'm excited to see what will come
ahead in the next few months! I love my mission, and i am so grateful to serve
the Lord.

Thursday, May 25, 2017

we had another great week here in Newtown. The work here is
beginning to pick up more and more each week. We have some great investigators,
and the Lord keeps blessing us with new people to teach. We had stake
conference this weekend, and elder Udo had to say a lot of goodbyes which was
not easy. I am super grateful for the time i had to serve with him.

Bro Eric is still doing great! He is continuing to progress
and is loving the gospel. We are hoping to baptize him this weekend with
another part member named Gyan.

Stake conference was great! There was a general theme of
"Look to the Savior, and live!" It was such a great, inspired
conference. Sometimes when something big happens, either good or bad, i can
tend to look to other sources for comfort or to give thanks, but I always need
to remember the Savior for all my needs. At mid-week, we read about the story
of Jonah. After Jonah gets swallowed up by the whale, he says to the Lord in
chapter 2:4, "I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy
holy temple." To Jonah, the temple became like a lighthouse on the shore
helping him back to safety. The Savior loves us so much and has given us so
much in order to remember Him and receive His guidance. When we look to the
temple, and to the Savior, He will help us through any trial we may have. I am
so grateful for this restored gospel.

I also met a man at the conference who was the first
missionary in the Tesano area many years ago. He was so happy to see how much
it has grown over the years. I cant imagine the thought going through his mind,
seeing such a large stake, and being the missionary who helped start it. We can
count the seeds in an apple, but you cant count the apples that come out of the
seeds. He is now living in Chicago, in a stake where Fletcher served! Small
world.

So I guess i should say something about transfers... I will
be getting a new companion, his name is Elder Nilsson from Springville Utah! We
came here together, and we have been best buds since the MTC! Now we will
finish our missions together hahahah. President said that in our last transfer
they will put us in a three some and we will finish together. I am so excited!
It will be a fun time.

I love it here so much. I am so grateful to be here and to
serve my Savior. I love Him, and i know He loves each one of us.

Monday, May 15, 2017

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day yesterday! It was
so good to talk to all of you yesterday. Sorry i couldn't Skype! Next time we
talk will be face to face, so it is alright.

This week went too fast. I am having a hard time remembering
what all happened! It was a good week though! We struggled to be able to sit
down with people though. Sometimes things just don't work out i guess.

My chair broke in the
middle of comp study

Sister Rosemond got confirmed yesterday! She said she felt
really good. You could already tell a difference in her. Just looking at her
you could tell that she was just happy. It reminded me of Matthew 6:22, where
it talks about how if our eye is single, we will be filled with light. It made
me so happy, and grateful to be a missionary. This work is true.

On Wednesday, they asked me to provide an activity for
mid-week. So we watched "Meet the Mormons." Unfortunately the volume
was pretty quiet, and by the end of the movie, half of the members were dead
asleep.. The activity kind of bombed hahah

We had a pretty interesting experience. It was good and bad
at the same time. So on Thursday, we were walking to go to an appointment, and
we felt like taking a random route to get there, and on the way there, we were
walking through a giant Muslim community, and someone called us over to talk to
them. So we kind of hesitantly went over to see who it was. When we saw him, he
was just this guy watching a store and he told us how he used to be a Muslim,
but that he met the missionaries in Cape Coast and they gave him a Restoration
pamphlet and he converted to Christianity. So we set up an appointment to come
on Saturday. When we got there on Saturday, we began the lesson and he bore
such a powerful testimony about the Restored gospel. It was awesome. Not too
long after that however, his mom came to where we were sitting, and asked us to
leave... So we just had to get up and go without saying anything else.
Hopefully we will be able to continue to meet with him though! Pray so that his
mom's heart will be softened! I know we didn't meet him by accident. It was just
another testimony to me that this is the Lord's work, and we just need to be
worthy to work for him.

This is the last week of the transfer, and i cant believe
how fast it has gone! It is sad to think that i will go home soon. I will miss
this so much.

Monday, May 8, 2017

I don't have much time to write this week, but we had a great
week! Our area is starting to pick up a little more each day. We also had
Multi-zone conferences this week, which was great. We have some great leaders
in our mission.

This week, we had a lot of failed appointments, which led us
to other people who were ready to hear the gospel. We saw a lot of miracles
after we showed our faith. We started teaching a part member this week and he
came to church! He struggles to speak English, but he has some great
support.

On Wednesday, we had our multi-zone conference, and we
talked a lot about integrity. I want to be completely trusted by the Lord, and
do what is right whether someone is watching or not.

Sunday, we had a baptism! And four investigators came to
church! And we got two fm's (free meals)! haha it was the greatest day
ever.

The baptism was so nice. Basically the whole ward was there
supporting sister Rosemond. Our ward is great!

Everything is great here! excited to talk to you this week!!

love you all! have a great week! Happy mothers day to all
you mothers out there!

Monday, May 1, 2017

this week was really fast. Things are going well in Newtown. We were able to extend a couple baptismal dates and find some cool new people. We also had interviews with president Simpson this week which was great. I love being able to talk to him and receive advice.

Wisdom, a recent convert

A couple weeks ago, we went to visit a member and we found out that her brother had just come to live with them so they asked us to teach him. At first he just seemed sad and down-hearted and didn't really pay attention. We taught him about prayer and how he can recognize the Spirit, and it changed everything. After that lesson, he came to church, and he is super attentive. His whole attitude has changed about us. We saw him on Sunday night after he came to church and asked him how he felt, and he said that he just felt happy. A kind of happiness that he can't even describe. We gave him a baptismal date and hopefully he will be ready by the end of May! So grateful for the Spirit!

We also started teaching an elderly man a couple weeks ago who is awesome! We taught him about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, and the next time we went there, we met him with his neighbor who was reading for him because he couldn't see. We followed up with him on the Book of Mormon, and he was so happy, and knew that the Book of Mormon is true. He also agreed to be baptized. Plus we got to teach his neighbor and she is awesome too! Such a miracle that we needed for sure.

Sister Rosemond is still doing great! She is so ready for her baptism this week, and we are excited for her.

This gospel is true with out a doubt. It changes lives and brings joy to all who choose to exercise a particle of faith. God hears and answers prayers. He definitely did for me this week.